'To Seek Below the Aspect of Illusion'
A Coin from Acheron: Chapter 10 of Robert E. Howard’s The Hour of the Dragon
© 2020 James LaFond
SEP/21/20
Reading from pages 155-163 of the DelRey edition
The thematic illustration depicts Conan holding Albiona close in the midst of a crystal globe held in the undead hands of a grinning skeletal figure hung with a cowled robe.
Conan, barbarian usurper of the crux kingdom of his age, finds himself in refuge among the heretical cult of Asura
into leviathan’s maw
logic of steel
time & cosmos
cracker-boy
hate
uncle satan
wife—
the fighting edge
the sunset saga complete
your trojan whorse
on the overton railroad
on combat
logic of force
songs of aryas
broken dance
the year the world took the z-pill
honor among men
blue eyed daughter of zeus
under the god of things
z-pill forever
barbarism versus civilization
triumph
fate
orphan nation
within leviathan’s craw
sons of aryas
let the world fend for itself
winter of a fighting life
solo boxing
the greatest boxer
menthol rampage
by the wine dark sea
predation
fanatic
the first boxers
all-power-fighting
when you're food
song of the secret gardener
ranger?
america the brutal
masculine axis
taboo you
book of nightmares
thriving in bad places
the combat space
fiction anthology one
the greatest lie ever sold
night city
dark, distant futures
sorcerer!
advent america
the gods of boxing
the lesser angels of our nature
beasts of aryas
son of a lesser god
Soon the real estate developer may say: "By This Axe I Rule!"